Submitted by Thaisleeze
Guest Post by Steve Watson
Scientists in the UK working as advisors for the government have expressed regret for using what they now admit to be “unethical” and “totalitarian” methods of instilling fear in the population in order to control behaviour during the pandemic, according to a report.
The London Telegraph reports the comments made by Members of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour (SPI-B), a sub-committee of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) the government’s chief scientific advisory group.
The report quotes a briefing from March 2020, as the first lockdown was decreed, that stated the government should drastically increase “the perceived level of personal threat” that the virus poses because “a substantial number of people still do not feel sufficiently personally threatened”.
One scientist with the SPI-B admits that “In March [2020] the Government was very worried about compliance and they thought people wouldn’t want to be locked down. There were discussions about fear being needed to encourage compliance, and decisions were made about how to ramp up the fear.”
The unnamed scientist adds that “The way we have used fear is dystopian.”
The scientist further confessed that “The use of fear has definitely been ethically questionable. It’s been like a weird experiment. Ultimately, it backfired because people became too scared.”
Another separate scientist on the subcommittee professed “You could call psychology ‘mind control’. That’s what we do… clearly we try and go about it in a positive way, but it has been used nefariously in the past.”
Another scientist warned that “We have to be very careful about the authoritarianism that is creeping in,” adding “people use the pandemic to grab power and drive through things that wouldn’t happen otherwise.”
According to the report, another researcher with the group acknowledged that “Without a vaccine, psychology is your main weapon,” adding that “Psychology has had a really good epidemic, actually.”
Yet another scientist on the subcommittee stated that they have been “stunned by the weaponisation of behavioural psychology” over the past year, and warned that “psychologists didn’t seem to notice when it stopped being altruistic and became manipulative.”
“They have too much power and it intoxicates them”, the scientist further warned.
The comments were collected by author Laura Dodsworth, for her book A State of Fear, out today, that explores the government’s actions during the pandemic.
What happen to the Brits who sailed to Dunkirk to help an army on the brink of destruction?
They went home, had families, spoiled their kids and then died.
My maternal grandfather was one of the last off the beach, regimental sergeant major in the Royal Engineers, WWI veteran. He pulled rank to be the first in the bath on board the Royal Navy rescue ship. They were then torpedoed and sunk, he won the military medal for swimming beneath burning oil on the surface and saving some of his mates. He was then rescued by one of the myriad small boats of the infamous flotilla. In the 1970s he was awarded the highest medals available to foreigners by Belgium and France for his actions. A real man.
At least one of his grandchildren turned out alright it seems.
Whats truly unfortunate is that these dirtballs who pushed and promulgated this fear campaign will never be held accountable. And so all this WILL continue and not to worry… the next crisis is coming down in 3…. 2…. 1… Aliens are here.
Have you ever given thought to the benefits available to us through Common Law Courts? Accountable people can be held accountable under Common Law.
Here on TBP we already knew all this a looong time ago. Why don’t these people writing these articles just come hang out here, they’ll get the scoop every time.
Yes Brian, but there are just so many people who have never had the advantage of a TBPer’s education – I consider myself privileged to have found this home of many kinds and colours.
You never want to let a crisis go to waste…
All involved should be round up and shot.
Rounding them up is way too obvious.
Just a long, slow series of unconnected, coincidental accidents.
AKA the Clinton Method
Vermin should be killed when and where found. No need or profit from herding.
And what might happen if ‘all those involved’ turned around and said disagreeable people should be shot? Already there is is too much ‘I’m right, you are wrong’ in the world.
If you keep sending your best, bravest, most honorable young men off to be killed in an endless string of fratricidal wars and allow the weakest, cowardly, and unethical ones to stay home and reproduce, what do you think is going to happen?
This ^^^!
It’s almost as if they intentionally planned it that way…
But …. but … lemme thing!!! It was!!!
Maybe honorable and best are mutually exclusive.
If you think so, it is because of what HSF is saying.
Return to sender. ~ Elvis
Nobody gets sent that wasn’t already sent.
Who was that big, strapping footballer – ASU I think – that was already sent after 9-11, got his package unwrapped by “friendly fire”?
This has been a concern of mine since I saw who was dying and getting maimed over there and extrapolating the lost genetic potential.
So sorry the response to your actions will also seem “totalitarian.”
That’s ok dick bags. Still plenty of trees and lightposts to hang you from.
ZFG, out.
P.S. the real regret will be when people finally say fuck it and hoist the flag.
I suggest a post for friendly over-under bets, and then a post to that post on the big day. I am supposing you mean the general population of the West or of the United States of America. My guess is ‘never’, which would be proven by regime change with no input from the general population. Any general uprising will just be some sociopaths on the news. The odds of a general disintegration catastrophic to the ruling coalition without a catastrophic invasion seems incredibly remote to me. As someone here says, it ain’t yours if you can’t defend it. Western government has trained and bred us too well, again.
I am down for that thread.
genpop of Europe and gen pop in the US/LGBTRQS/BDSM/RINO/PINKOS/NOSTEPONSNEK/1+1=potato/muhgunz/SA indeed. I give about 15 to 1 of a general revolt in the U.S.A. Ultimately it is always 50/50. Either it does or does not.
Real question is what is the final straw?
1/15 = 6.7% chance. Just about never. I don’t think most white Christian conservatives have a final straw. That’s how I answer the question. I think most Americans can’t fathom life without continuity with these governing institutions, as if they are magical. I can’t guess a plausible final straw. Mandatory sex change surgery for half the country? Would that even do it? lol If they don’t end the video game industry, it won’t happen. lol We watch the show and hope to not star in it too soon.
I am embarrassed. The odds are 1/(1+15) = 6.3%.
I think they do, but their numbers are hugely inflated by various heretical cults. There just aren’t very many.
I remember a time when my tone was too dark and aggressive. My, oh, my.
The quotes are from the London Telegraph behind a paywall. I don’t pay much nevermind to what is said that scientists said. You either have enough knowledge and skin in the game to want what’s good for you or you don’t. I am not going to let others preemptively own my thoughts as their narrative to control my potential blow back. Why do ye give social standing to the xxxxx? Cause Jesus.
I’m afraid to see how bad it must get for the rose-colored glasses to come off on some of you. Others may have the right idea, but I see no good in advertising. Some men have a pulse, some men can’t have a pulse. The hard way it is.
So they “regret” their acts of domestic terrorism. Yet, they will never pay a penalty for it.
https://www.activistpost.com/2021/05/total-tyranny-well-all-be-targeted-under-the-governments-new-precrime-program.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ActivistPost+%28Activist+Post%29
What’s it take, tho, for ‘totalitarian fear tactics’ to find traction? It takes already ‘total’ people, right? “Because what you have to be before you try to be a pole-vaulter…Hello! Is a pole-vaulter, no?”
This crazy “argument” is the complaint that ‘total’ people should just attend to their sums, reconcile their inner checkbooks, & stop overdrawing their accounts. It’s as utopian, which is always dystopian, as that stuff Timothy Treadwell did with the grizzly bears in AK.
Those detestable “scientists”, terrible technocratz, and demonic politicians who have traumatized, terrorized, and tortured their test subjects ( innocent civilians) for a year and three months now deserve, themselves, to be traumatized, terrorized, and tortured for their crimes against Humanity.
Then boiled in oil for good measure. Auntie hates their fucking guts.
Well, this ain’t news. Many of us saw this right away; in February of 2020. Not surprised at all. What I AM surprised about is the fact that hundreds of millions of people took the bait and don’t have the ability to think for themselves. The United States proved it self to be a nation of mindless, compliant, non-thinking sheep. The founding Fathers would be weeping if they could see the nation now.
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/claim-vaccinated-people-are-being-tracked-in-real-time-via-5g-cellular-and-all-that-data-can-be-hacked-into-to-track-you
https://www.labroots.com/trending/chemistry-and-physics/15530/scientists-developed-magnetic-nanoparticles-remotely-modulate-neural-circuits